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Russian Recital
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner, Alexander Scriabin

Vladimir Tropp

Russian Recital

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Format: CD
Label: Fondamenta
UPC: 0888751401228
Catnr: FON 5140122
Release date: 08 December 2017
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Fondamenta
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0888751401228
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FON 5140122
Release date
08 December 2017
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Vladimir Tropp is known as one of the leading professors of the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music. For the last ten years, he has also taught at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Several of his students have won major international piano competitions.

Tropp's performances of russian piano repertoire, particularly of works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner, are largely acclaimed. Tropp has recorded a Russian recital destined to continue the acclaim he is accustomed to receiving, and opening the eyes and ears of many listeners approaching him for the very first time. Russian Recital is his only recording which has been published in the last 10 years…
Vladimir Tropp is bekend als een van de vooraanstaande professor aan de Gnessin Staatsacademie voor Muziek. In de afgelopen tien jaar doceerde hij ook aan het Tchaikovsky-Conservatorium van Moskou. Verscheidene van zijn studenten hebben grote internationale pianocompetities gewonnen.

Tropp’s uitvoeringen van Russisch pianorepertoire, in het bijzonder die van werken van Rachmaninov, Scriabin en Medtner, zijn hooggewaardeerd. Tropp heeft een Russisch recital opgenomen met de bedoeling de lof die hij gewend is te ontvangen voort te zetten, en de ogen en oren van vele luisteraars die hem voor het eerst benaderen te openen. Russian Recital is zijn enige opname die in de afgelopen tien jaar is gepubliceerd…
Vladimir Tropp gilt als einer der führenden Professoren der Russischen Geschwister-Gnessin-Musikakademie Moskau. Seit zehn Jahren unterrichtet er ebenso am Tschaikowsky-Konservatorium in Moskau. Mehrere seiner Schüler haben große internationale Klavierwettbewerbe gewonnen. Seine Aufführungen des russischen Klavierrepertoires werden größtenteils gefeiert. ‘Russian Recital‘ ist seine einzige Aufnahme, die in den letzten 10 Jahren veröffentlicht wurde...

Artist(s)

Vladimir Tropp (piano)

Vladimir Tropp was born in Moscow in 1939. He studied at the celebrated Gnessin Music School from an early age. His teachers included the distinguished Russians Moisey Feigin and Teodor Gutman, both pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus. While still a student, Tropp began giving recitals and performing with orchestras. He was awarded the prestigious Rimsky-Korsakov scholarship. In 1963 Tropp graduated with distinction from the Gnessin State Musical Institute, since named the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. He continued his graduate studies while teaching there. Today he is known as one of the leading professors of this major institution of professional music education. In 1997 he was appointed chair of the Academy’s piano department. For the last ten years he has also...
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Vladimir Tropp was born in Moscow in 1939. He studied at the celebrated Gnessin Music School from an early age. His teachers included the distinguished Russians Moisey Feigin and Teodor Gutman, both pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus. While still a student, Tropp began giving recitals and performing with orchestras. He was awarded the prestigious Rimsky-Korsakov scholarship. In 1963 Tropp graduated with distinction from the Gnessin State Musical Institute, since named the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. He continued his graduate studies while teaching there. Today he is known as one of the leading professors of this major institution of professional music education. In 1997 he was appointed chair of the Academy’s piano department. For the last ten years he has also taught at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In his teaching Professor Tropp strives to maintain the finest traditions of the Russian school of piano playing. Several of his students have won major international competitions. In 1970 Tropp was a laureate of the International Enesco Piano Competition in Bucharest. Since then, he has constantly performed and held master classes in Russia and many other countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Finland, the USA, Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Canada, Costa Rica, Taiwan and Southern Korea. Romantic music comprises the major part of his repertoire. His performances of works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner are widely acclaimed. The celebrated pianist Lazar Berman wrote that Tropp “is a singular and subtle artist. Sincerity, an outstanding sense of poetry, improvisatory freedom, rhythmic flexibility, a highly coloured pianistic sound – these are the essential traits of the powerful artistic persona of Vladimir Tropp.” Tropp has made a series of radio, LP and CD recordings. From 1995 onwards the Denon Company (Japan) produced ten CDs of works by Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner. In 1998, one of his series of three CDs entitled Russian Miniatures was awarded the prestigious Record Academy prize for best classical recording of the year. Tropp is a musician with wide-ranging interests. He has published work on the performing arts of Russia and other countries, as well as articles on the recordings of outstanding performers, and made a series of radio broadcasts. Most prominent among Professor Tropp’s activities has been the study of Sergei Rachmaninov’s creative work. He has examined all extant archives of the composer in the United States, Russia, Switzerland and Costa Rica, publishing articles and writing and directing television films about him. Tropp is vice-president of the Rachmaninov Society and a board member of the Scriabin Society in Russia. He is a member of the Teodor Leschetizki and Scriabin Societies in the USA and the Glenn Gould Society in Canada. He has played solo and chamber music at music festivals in Kuhmo (Finland), Portogruaro (Italy) and elsewhere. He regularly serves on juries of international and national piano competitions, including the F. Lamond International Competition in Glasgow, the International Piano Competition in Hamamatsu (Japan) and the Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow.

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Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. He began playing the piano at the age of five, but received his first lessons only at the age of eleven. He could not play from sight, but studied the score and played the compositions by heart afterwards. He was also a gifted improviser. During the rest of his live Scriabin made a living as a composer and concert pianist.He established contracts with publishers and also had a patron in his former student Margarita Morozova for some time. In addition, he annually won a money prize in the context of the Glinka-prize for new compositions that was set up by Beljajev. Scriabin primarily wrote for solo piano and orchestra. His music progressively evolved over...
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Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. He began playing the piano at the age of five, but received his first lessons only at the age of eleven. He could not play from sight, but studied the score and played the compositions by heart afterwards. He was also a gifted improviser.
During the rest of his live Scriabin made a living as a composer and concert pianist.He established contracts with publishers and also had a patron in his former student Margarita Morozova for some time. In addition, he annually won a money prize in the context of the Glinka-prize for new compositions that was set up by Beljajev.
Scriabin primarily wrote for solo piano and orchestra. His music progressively evolved over the course of his life, although the evolution was very rapid and especially brief when compared to most composers. His earliest piano pieces resemble those of Frédéric Chopin. The works from his middle and late period use very unusual harmonies and textures.
From 1904 till 1910 Scriabin lived in western Europe, primarily in Switzerland, but also in northern Italy, Paris and Brussels. After his return to Russia he found himself in the middle of a circle of admirers who were attracted to his exalted and mystic ideas. During the last years of his life he worked on a grandiose manifestation, a Gesamtkunstwerk, Mysterium, in which all arts and all people would have been united. He left only sketches of the prelude to this piece (L'action préalable) and large amounts of text.

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Nikolai Medtner

The Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner was a younger contemporary of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, who wrote a substantial amount of works, all including the piano, amongst others piano and violin sonatas, piano concertos, songs and a few shorter pieces for piano. 38 of these pieces are collected under the name Skazki (Fairy Tales) and contain Medtners most appealing and original music. Despite his declining health, Medtner succeeded in recording several of his works before his death in 1951. His compositions became neglected in the following 25 years. Nowadays he is more and more often recognized as one of the most significant Russian piano composers, and several recordings of his piano works and a few of his songs are available.  
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The Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner was a younger contemporary of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, who wrote a substantial amount of works, all including the piano, amongst others piano and violin sonatas, piano concertos, songs and a few shorter pieces for piano. 38 of these pieces are collected under the name Skazki (Fairy Tales) and contain Medtners most appealing and original music.
Despite his declining health, Medtner succeeded in recording several of his works before his death in 1951. His compositions became neglected in the following 25 years. Nowadays he is more and more often recognized as one of the most significant Russian piano composers, and several recordings of his piano works and a few of his songs are available.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninov took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano and orchestral pieces by this time. In 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov and his family left Russia and resided in the United States, first in New York City. Demanding piano concert tour schedules caused...
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire.
Born into a musical family, Rachmaninov took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano and orchestral pieces by this time. In 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov and his family left Russia and resided in the United States, first in New York City. Demanding piano concert tour schedules caused his output as composer to slow tremendously; between 1918 and 1943, he completed just six compositions, including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3, and Symphonic Dances. In 1942, Rachmaninov moved to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninov acquired American citizenship.
Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and his use of rich orchestral colors.[3] The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninov's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument.

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